pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and home invasion charges in a Chicago court yesterday.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Vanessa and Angela Are Copycats
This cat named Johnny Cupcakes says Rev Run's daughter's Vanessa and Angela not only ripped off his bakery motif for their Pastry line, but also his designs. Click here for the low down.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Kendu Blocks Keyshia From Singing Mary Tribute
The second annual BET Honors taped the other day and gossip is starting to leak out from behind the scenes. They say producers were really hot to have Keyshia Cole sing a tribute to Mary J. Blige, who was honored along with Tyler Perry and Magic Johnson, but Mary's husband/manager nixed the idea claiming there're too many comparisons between Mary and Keyshia as it is. Instead, Monica and Anita Baker sang the tribute to Mary while Keyshia was relegated to introducing choreographer Judith Jamison.
People were also talking about how great Whitney Houston looked, who didn't sing, but is scheduled along with Jennifer Hudson, to sing at Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy party this year.
Man Claims Ben Vereen And His Daughter Scammed Him
Ben Vereen' s daughter's ex-fiance is suing Ben and his daughter, Malaika Vereen, for more than $10 million dollars in damages. The dude, who works for UPS, claims he gave Malaika a $30,000.00 engagement ring, spent $250,000 over two years courting her, and put $123,000 down on the house for her, which was co-signed by Ben Vereen. The dude broke the engagement after he found out Malaika was planning to use the house as a rental property and demanded the house be sold to recoup his 123 large. That's when he found out the only name on the deed was Ben Vereen's and he wasn't selling. The dude says Ben Vereen told him "my word is my word, we don't have to sign anything. He told me that everything would be okay. ... I tried reaching out to him ... he said it's out of his hands."
The lawsuit demands Ben Vereen and his daughter return the ring, reimburse the money he put down on the house, and pay $5 million each in punitive damages.
Dude said, "Even if I don't get the money back, I can let people know who these people are - to beware. Love is blind, I guess."
Dwyane Wade Divorce Takes Nasty Turn
Dwyane Wade and his estranged wife Siohvaughn's divorce is getting dirty...literally. Siohvaughn accuses D Wade of squandering their marital assets, abandoning their children and giving her an STD.
In court papers Siohvaugh alleges, "Dwyane has dissipated substantial sums of marital property including . . . buying his mother a $2 million church; placing substantial sums of money in an account with another woman; providing numerous friends and family members with unfettered access to accounts with hundreds of thousands of dollars of marital funds from which they made substantial withdrawals . . .''
According to the petition Siovaugh also claims Dwyane has gone ''months'' without seeing his sons and 'His ''failure to spend time with them . . . has resulted in the children at times being afraid of him; in fact, Zion . . . does not recognize or know Dwyane.'' Siovaugh wants sole custody and support.
Sio is also pissed because D Wade left her burning. In the divorce papers she's demanding a list of Wyane's lovers because she says she suffered ''grievous physical, emotional and mental injury'' from an STD diagnosed in the fall of '07. She insists Dwyane and his ''paramour or paramours'' are liable and 'Dwyane must disclose the identity of all of his sexual partners during the parties' marriage,'' says her petition.
Notorious Opens With $21 Million, One Shooting And Four Stabbings
The Notorious B.I.G biopic opened this weekend in limited release with a respectable $21 million dollars, but not without controversy. The film's star, rapper Jamal 'Gravy' Woolard, was in the house Friday night for a Greensboro, NC showing, but it got shut down before the movie started because somebody got shot twice in the lobby. In other Notorious opening night chatter, four guys got stabbed in a Brooklyn nightclub Saturday night at a party that was promoted as an 'official' Notorious movie after-party. Fox Searchlight, the film's distributor, has denied any connection with the club promotion.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Ms. Wallace Has A Question For Lil Kim
Biggie Smalls' mother Voletta Wallace was on the Angie Martinez show yesterday and posed this question to Lil Kim, “I wanna believe she loved him…but I wanna know…did my son love you?”
Burn! Click here to listen to a snippet of the interview at MissInfo.tv
Jay Z on...
Beyonce's popularity: “ You have to understand. I’m used to people not even knowing what my girlfriend looks like. Now, I’m in a relationship with Michael Jackson.”